My Upgrades Are Invincible - Chapter 168
Once we arrived back in Lyons, I smiled seeing the other Servants and master’s had already made a little camp in an area without the destroyed undead remains from the previous occupants of the town.
“Yo boss man! Come get some of this grub and drinks!” Ashwathama yelled out joyously from across a fire they built up and he along with Artoria were cooking what looked to be a half dozen chickens they caught in the village.
I nodded and patted Jeanne on her back and she sent me a smile as she went to sit by Mash, as I walked over to Ashwathama and Artoria to sit beside them.
“Hey where’s your Master?” I asked the Archer and he pointed over at one of the few still standing buildings.
“Apparently the little Vampire girl is acting up and he needed to calm her down after that Vampire Servant Carmilla did something to her that turned her thirst level to the max.” Ashwathama said frowning and then I looked at how he was positioned sitting on his knees and the cracked open door to where his master and Hinako was in a straight-line to him. So should he hear anything that could prove a threat to his Master he could instantly sprint the hundred something meter distance in damn near a couple seconds to save him.
“Don’t worry Master. Hinako seems to be rather even headed and will be fine.” Artoria said blandly, but her dull tone couldn’t hide the sparkles in her eyes as the chickens on some spikes slowly rotated dropping its juicy grease into the hot coals beneath the cooking food spreading the smell of the cooking meat and spices.
I very much doubt she is all too calm… I very clearly recall her trying to suck me dry in the non-fun way after I saved her life and kept her from being mentally tortured basically for two thousand odd years in her Lostbelt… Yes, I was still a little salty the proud woman took a chunk of flesh from me.
As I was sitting there waiting for the food to finish cooking, I couldn’t help but think about my Familia back in the world of Danmachi, I missed Hestia, Freya, and Bell most of all especially with how I was going in these adventures without my brother in all but blood in Bell. Actually, he may actually be a blood brother at this point seeing as Hestia’s blood flows within both our veins.
“I miss my friends from before all this Singularity crap happened.” I sighed and Artoria clapped my knee in agreement.
“Umu well your great emperor will stand beside you for however long you need Master.” Nero cried out surprising me and Artoria as she draped herself over my shoulders and I could feel the infectious smile she was wearing as she shook me in her arms. “Master, as a warrior and a leader you need to understand the path you walk is one that is a constant incline in difficulty and as the mountain of greatness gets steeper closer to the top, there is less and less people that can stand equally at your side. Umu but this Emperor will always be your equal so don’t worry that you shall be left alone!” Nero consoled me before she kissed my neck loudly making a popping noise as she disengaged the kiss seeing Morgan striding over to the Roman emperor with an evil light to her cold blue eyes.
“Hehe, I think I need to make a strategic retreat…” Nero muttered before dashing off and forcefully pulling Berserker Tamamo out of her conversation with Fujimaru to act as shield against Morgan.
“So, what kind of friends did you have before?” Artoria asked and I was reminded that although she was rather anti-social in her time as the king of Britain, she still had a strong friendship with her knights despite the many problems they brought to her with their antics.
The other Servants all perked up wanting to hear about the people I ran around with and with the knowledge that I wasn’t some modern mage or person strolling around in almost magicless modern world, they believed that I was messing around in the Reverse Side of the World.
“Hmm well there is my brother in all but blood Bell Cranel but even then, that’s iffy as we both have the blood blessing of Hestia who is our divine sponsor of sorts… But I honestly have a lot of friends that I have met on my travels.” I said before briefly telling the group of people about how some of the antics me and Bell got into. Like the time me and him went on a double date with me taking Haruhime and him taking Eina out to a nice lunch and our restaurant got caught in a bar brawl that was across the street and spilled over to where we were.”
“Wait so Kitsunes are rather common?” Tamamo questioned incredulously and luckily, I had picked up a couple magical cameras from Hogwarts and took pictures of my girls and some of the sights in Orario.
“Yeah, this is Haruhime.” I said passing over a photo of me and Haruhime relaxing in our lawn chair together with her large floofy tails covering a good portion of my body in the picture. “I wouldn’t say they are common at all but there are political issues with how they are connected to Inari and the other Shinto gods and are regularly exploited by many gods.” I said frowning for a moment as I recalled how Haruhime could have faced a literal fate worse than death.
“So, an elf taught you how to fight?” Scathach asked and I wordlessly pulled out a picture of Ryuu in her adventure outfit and passed it over with the immortal Queen of the Land of Shadows and her Master looking at the elf with interest.
“Hmm I would be interested in sparring with you at some point in order to see where you can improve.” Scathach said lightly giving me a nod in respect to my fighting powers at this moment. I knew she honestly could defeat me rather easily as her magically augmented Servant strength at the moment exceeded my own strength and her skill and experience were far out of my reach to say the least.
So, I certainly wouldn’t deny her opinion on how to get stronger. Also, I needed to give up on trying to only gather high quality materials to fuse into stronger items and instead change into mass fusions like the original person who had my ability did by fusing whole mountain ranges together into buildings and such.
Or I could go to somewhere like Genshin Impact and steal the Visons the Raiden Shogun inlaid upon that massive statue and that would give me a great powerup as I am sure with my fusion abilities and the divine blood of the gods within Orario we could make it so I and the other members of the Familia could use more than one element.
After the chickens along with some other rations were passed out and we were all eating Pepe and Hinako finally came out from the building they were staying in as the sun began going down. I looked over to Hinako and she honestly wasn’t really looking all the great.
She looked paler than usual and that was saying something, and I guess the easiest way to describe her frail appearance was that she looked to be almost hollowed out.
“Hinako do you need blood or something?” I asked bluntly as I had little interest in having her either snap and want to rip out one of our throats out as we sleep or simply collapse tomorrow and be deadweight as she wanted to argue her status as a ‘blood elemental’.
Hinako’s eyes snapped to me, and I realized that as I was watching her body language and her skin tone while she was looking at the ground I didnt see her eyes. Her previous dark amber eyes had transformed into a lightly glowing blood red that showed how deep her thirst for blood has reached.
Hinako stared at me wordlessly with her dull glowing red eyes and I briefly looked at Pepe who froze beside her and I noticed his right hand that was next to Hinako was clenched in a sort of claw shape and realized he was ready to bring Hinako down using his Tengu martial arts. Not to mention the other Servants who realized that there may be a feral vampire about to snap and almost all of them were clearly ready to simply kill her to prevent a danger to the restoration of humanity.
“Hinako Akuta…” I said gently and I saw her eyes lose a bit of her inhuman ferocity and although they didnt change colors the red seemed a bit duller as I stood up and gently walked over to her.
Pepe tried to subtly wave me off of her, but I shook my head, fully confident in, if need be, I could wrench her off me should she lose control and I could heal any damage she does to me with some healing potions that can even recover blood loss.
Pepe literally just shrugged, and I could see his thought process of him going ‘fuck it’ as he strode over to where Mash was talking to Jeanne.
As I got within a couple feet of Hinako, her eyes began glowing and as she was mono focused on my face I swiftly slit my finger on my sword and before the smell of my blood spread to her and made her go into a feeding frenzy I slipped my bloody finger into her mouth making her startle and her eyes go from a dull red to a brighter red as she hummed and sucked on my finger.
‘It’s not NTR if she is a widow and her husband got turned into an undead mechanical horse worthy of joining the Necrons of 40K…’ I thought wryly as Hinako Akuta, AKA Consort Yu, or Yu, Mei Ren tried to do her best to suck the life out of me through my bleeding finger.
I looked around and I saw all of the Servants seemingly relaxing seeing me keeping the vampire in control and in a stupor, so I coughed loudly making them blink and smile knowingly before turning back to one another and continue the conversations they had going before miss ‘blood elemental’ came over.
I quickly led Hinako aside to a tree for a smidgen of privacy and after a moment of hesitation I mentally just said fuck it and just pulled her into my lap and I wrapped my free arm around her back pulling her closer across me as I sat down against the tree. “Here… Don’t be rude to the person literally letting you take a bite out of you afterwards.” I said as I swiftly scratched my wrist with a blade and pushed the bleeding wrist against her mouth.
Even as she began sucking my blood, I noticed her face seemingly changing, losing her diminutive disguise of a mousy book worm as her hair undid themselves from her twin tails and seemed to merge into a straight waterfall of hair that ran down her back. From how close she was I could literally see and feel her body… Thicken up as her hips expanded in her clothes as well as her almost diminutive barely B cup chest grew another cup size and a half coming closer to a respectful D cup stretching out her thick frumpy sweater that was chosen to hide her diminutive figure but was now hugging her more filled out form.
